If I was a coach, with in the first 5 min of ever game I would threaten to murder at least one ref until I was T'ed up. Seems intimidating the ref to the point of getting a T usually works out pretty well.
^this. Larry Eustacy worked the officials from the tip off when he won a big12 champy. Self does this alot when he knows he's in a dogfight, ie at ISU. remember when he was at OOD a couple of years ago ? He was down 12 or 14 in the first half, called timeout, and chewed on an official the ENTIRE timeout. They came back and won.